Tom Pennington - Getty Images for TMS
7 months ago: FORT WORTH, TX - OCTOBER 25: Vernon Wells #10 of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim prepares for a two-seater ride with Kurt Busch, driver of the #22 Shell/Pennzoil Dodge at Texas Motor Speedway on October 25, 2011 in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images for TMS)
Imagine Vernon Wells stepping to the plate to Love, Love, Love Drags Me Down off the Barbarella Soundtrack with the Bob Crewe Generation reminding every fan not to get their hopes up...
INDEED... Vernon, you drag us down and the sound of the feigned excitement as you pop one up a mile high but right into the catcher's glove. Every awesome facet of the 1960s music scene is either missing or pandered to in this terrible imitation of superstar. Come to think of it, what an exact parallel to your career and the desperate circumstances of a trigger happy general manager who buried whatever meager legacy he may have had when he traded for you.
In the end the whole recorded performance is weirdly pleasant enough, much like the observation that you, Vern Dog, are quite the inoffensively magnanimous twittering teammate, but can you rock harder than this brassy paean to impressing one's self at the expense of turning everyone off? If not, I say curate this as the Vernon Wells Walkup music for each and every 2012 At Bat.
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He has to do better then Mathis
that must be his goal
this one
DAD OF VLAD - February 7, 2012
If anyone deserves buttercup as a walk up song...
It’s V-dub.
Darth Duane - February 7, 2012
Preach, My Brother!!!!
The lyrics would finally make sense in context of the subject they are attached to.
Angelsfan015 - February 8, 2012
Why do you pop me up, Buttercup?!
5thStarter - February 9, 2012
Oops I did it again
red floyd - February 7, 2012
The fool on the hill
Sorbo182 - February 7, 2012
"I Don't Care About You" -- FEAR
PieceOfAase - February 7, 2012
Tough poll question.
.220 is probably right around where VW will be.
snowhor - February 7, 2012
A couple of possibilities...
Thought about these three:
High Hopes — Pink Floyd
In the Air Tonight — Phil Collins
Centerfield — John Fogerty
But finally settled on:
Somewhere over the Rainbow — The IZ Version.
Captain Thailand - February 7, 2012
ballin' - jim jones
YOUknowulovetheIE - February 8, 2012 via mobile
Based on his last season's performance and his response to the comments about it,
I submit the following: These Peoples Try to Fade me by Coach Z (from the homestarrunner site). Link
And yes, I am being slightly ironic, but only only very slightly ironic.
Angelsfan015 - February 8, 2012
This is easy: Buttercup
hauldog - February 8, 2012
I hear Barbarella
and think of this song
blast21dave - February 8, 2012
I feel like Vernon Wells deserves a Pat Benetar song
Just not Shadows of the Night….. that one is too bad ass
ItCouldHappen - February 8, 2012
Someone has to have written a song entitled "Pop Up Blues"...
mustard_man - February 8, 2012
Sums up the trade:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ5TajZYW6Y&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Halowitz - February 8, 2012 via mobile
moneymoneymoneymonay...MONAYYY
NA1NSXR - February 8, 2012
Good choice here Rev.
Barbarella is a classic. Especially the opening sequence with an essentially nude young Jane Fonda (clothed only in a small fur if I recall) floating inside her spaceship !
Jack Frostt - February 9, 2012
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